Business Analytics Minor
The Business Analytics minor, consisting of 15 credits, is open to all students except for Business Analytics majors. The minor intends to prepare students to work as business analytics professionals that are highly sought by organizations that value exploring data to gain business insights. Business Analytics minor students will gain cutting-edge analytics knowledge and skills that enable them to collect and analyze data from a variety of sources and then identify and deliver insights critical to organizational success. To complete the minor, students will take two required courses in Business Analytics and three additional elective courses.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Students will gain a deep understanding of the role of analytics in business value creation and decision making.
- Students will develop competencies in identifying, collecting, cleaning, preparing, and analyzing data, and communicating their data analysis results to designated audiences.
About Academic Minors
Farmingdale State College students are invited to enhance their studies with an "Academic Minor." A minor is a cluster of thematically related courses drawn from one or more departments. In addition to department based minors (e.g. computer programming & info systems), interdisciplinary minors are also available (e.g. legal studies).
Academic minors are approved by the College-Wide Curriculum Committee and the Provost. Students must make application for an academic minor through the department offering the minor in conjunction with the Registrar's Office Specific course work must be determined in consultation with a faculty member in the department offering the minor. A statement of successful completion of the academic minor will appear on the student's transcript at the time of graduation.
- A minor is considered to be an optional supplement to a student's major program of study.
- Completion of a minor is not a graduation requirement and is subject to the availability of the courses selected. However, if the requirements for a minor are not completed prior to certification of graduation in the major, it will be assumed that the minor has been dropped. Consequently, the student will only be certified for graduation in their primary major.
- Only students in 4 year baccalaureate programs can apply for a minor.
- A minor should consist of 15 to 21 credits.
- At least 12 credits must be in courses at the 200 level or higher.
- At least 9 credits must be residency credits.
- Specific requirements for each minor are determined by the department granting the minor.
- Students must maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of at least 2.0 in their minor. Some minors may require a higher GPA.
- Students are prohibited from declaring a minor in the same discipline as their major (e.g. one cannot combine an applied math minor with an applied math major). Academic minors may not apply to all curricula.
- Students are permitted to double-count courses.
- Students are only permitted to take more than one minor with appropriate written approval of their department chair or curriculum Dean.
Admission to Farmingdale State College - State University of New York is based on the qualifications of the applicant without regard to age, sex, marital or military status, race, color, creed, religion, national origin, disability or sexual orientation.
Contact Information
Business
Dr. Nanda Viswanathan
School of Business, Room 329
934-420-2015
business@farmingdale.edu
Monday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm
Fall 2026
Subject to revision
| Required: | (6 credits) |
|---|---|
| BUS 111 Introduction to Business OR | |
| BUS 109 Management Theories and Practices | 3 |
| BUS 345 Foundations of Business Analytics | 3 |
In consultation with their advisors, students may apply to take three electives from the following list (9 credits):
| MTH 246 Introduction to Financial Mathematics OR | |
| BUS 308 Quantitative Techniques in Finance | 3 |
| BUS 340 Advanced Business Statistics OR | |
| ECO 380 Econometrics | 3 |
| BUS 385 Business Data Management OR | |
| CSC 363 Data Management | 3 |
| BUS 442 Human Resources Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 346 Social Media Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 440 Visual Analytics | 3 |
| BUS 445 Advanced Business Analytics | 3 |
| ECO 480 Forecasting | 3 |
Curriculum Summary
Total Credits: 15